Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl’s first three novels, The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have over one million copies in print combined. Critics have likened Pearl to E. L. Doctorow, and described him as “at the very forefront of contemporary ... (meer)novelists” (Caleb Carr), “sparkling with erudition” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and “the shining star of literary fiction” (Dan Brown). In his new novel, The Technologists (On Sale February 21, 2012), the acclaimed author takes a departure from his past three novels which focused on literary history’s greatest mysteries and transports readers to nineteenth-century Boston, where a war exists between the past and present, tradition and technology.

This month's book pick is "The Last Dickens" by Matthew Pearl. Synopsis: When Daniel Sand's body is discovered by the docks where he awaited Charles Dickens's unfinished novel, publishing partner James Osgood and Rebecca Sand, Daniel's sister, attempt to uncover Dickens's final mystery. The book club ... (meer)warmly welcomes new members anytime. 637-6374

Members will discuss THE DANTE CLUB by Matthew Pearl.

MATTHEW PEARL, bestselling author of “The Dante Club” and “The Poe Shadow”, speaks about “The Last Dickens”, his new novel reopening one of literary history’s greatest mysteries — the quest to find the novel left unfinished at the moment of Charles Dickens’ untimely death in 1870.

Winner of the Dante Prize, Matthew Pearl will read from his book, The Last Dickens, at Books Inc. in the Opera Plaza.

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl will take the Mystery Book Club back to 1865 for a series of murders based on Dante’s Inferno. This intelligent, well written mystery should have plenty dark turns to discus..